Inventing Origins? Aetiological Thinking in Greek and Roman Antiquity /
Aetiologies seem to gratify the human desire to understand the origin of a phenomenon. However, as this book demonstrates, aetiologies do not exclusively explore origins. Rather, in inventing origin stories they authorise the present and try to shape the future. This book explores aetiology as a too...
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التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني
اللغة: English
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Leiden; Boston :
BRILL,
2022.
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Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation ;
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| الملخص: | Aetiologies seem to gratify the human desire to understand the origin of a phenomenon. However, as this book demonstrates, aetiologies do not exclusively explore origins. Rather, in inventing origin stories they authorise the present and try to shape the future. This book explores aetiology as a tool for thinking, and draws attention to the paradoxical structure of origin stories. Aetiologies reduce complex ambivalence and plurality to plainly causal and temporal relations, but at the same time, by casting an anchor into the past, they open doors to progress and innovation. |
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| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource. |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ردمك: | 9789004500433 9789004500143 |